[Gllug] new intel chip

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Alain Williams wrote:

> I learn from
> 	http://www0.mercurycenter.com/local/center/int012502.htm
> that Intel is going to emulate AMD and produce a 64 bit pentium.

Given the attention x86-64 is getting already, Intel would be
pretty stupid not to have a backup plan imo.

What amuses me is that when we started the Linux kernel port,
we copied arch/i386/ to arch/x86-64, and over time stripped out
all the bits that did something to the effect of..

	if (vendor==Intel) {
		foo()
	} else if (vendor==AMD) {
		bar()
	}

Made for a nice codesize reduction. Now if Intel make compatable
x86-64's, we get to re-add those bits 8-)

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs


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